מַי
ma.yim
water
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The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
Genesis 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
Genesis 1:9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
Genesis 1:10God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:21God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 6:17I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
Genesis 7:6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
Genesis 7:7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7:10After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 7:17The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 7:18The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Genesis 7:18The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Genesis 7:19The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Genesis 7:20The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7:24The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
Genesis 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
Genesis 8:3The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8:3The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
Genesis 8:5The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8:7and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:8He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Genesis 8:9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Genesis 8:11The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Genesis 8:13In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Genesis 9:11I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:15I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 16:7Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
Genesis 18:4Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 21:14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:15The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21:19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 21:19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 21:25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
Genesis 24:11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis 24:13Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:13Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:17The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
Genesis 24:32The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 24:43behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
Genesis 24:43behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”
Genesis 26:18Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 26:19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26:20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26:32The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”